This is where I’ll have to disagree with you. Mitzvos anshei melumada is a problem that exists left and right, no matter what tzibur/community, no matter how much Torah they know. There are unfortunately not so many people who really think about what they are doing actively. Even in something as “small” as making an asher yatzar, a good chunk of the population (yes, Chareidi too) do not take the time to think about what they’re saying or doing.
Rashi says that iyun tefillah is osur; you’re not supposed to say “because I davened really well, I wonder if Hakodosh Boruch-hu listened to my tefillah”. The very fact that Rashi has a hava amina that a person would have such a thought spells out just how far we are from being machshiv our thoughts, words, and actions.
I’ve heard people say that Rav Shach used to bench out of a siddur/bencher b’shita. The reality is, Rav Shach only did that about once a week – and outside of that it wasn’t a “magical segulah”, it was in order to help concentrate on what he was doing. Today, solely because Rav Shach did it, that are those that flock to benching with an open siddur – but not as an avoda, just to do the same.
It was challenge in previous generations, and it’s a greater challenge in this generation. Nobody is immune. It is a challenge that each individual, regardless of what city they live in or how much time they do or don’t spend with their heads in a gemara, must face; Bnei Brak is no different. I’d even venture to say that I find working people on the whole tend to ‘think’ about their Torah more than your average avreich – and I think that’s because they are machshiv the short time that they have to learn. Their whole day leads to it. In the yeshiva/kollel world, where “everyone does the same thing”, the challenge is much greater (I’m me’id on myself).
Regardless, hatzlocho. B”H whichever environment you’re in you’ll know to use it to be mechazek you and help you grow.